12 Thursday Mar 2015
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Directed: Lionel Barrymore
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Director – Lionel Barrymore, Best Actress – Ruth Chatterton
Plot in 25 Words: A cheating wife is cast aside by her scorned husband. Twenty years later her shameful past is used for blackmail. Her unknowing son forgives all.
12 Thursday Feb 2015
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Directed: Frank Lloyd
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Director – Frank Lloyd, Best Actress – Corrinne Griffith
Won: Best Director – Frank Lloyd
Plot in 25 Words: A poor girl becomes a rich trophy wife, and then lover to one of the most powerful men of the time. Mostly a true story.
05 Thursday Feb 2015
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Directed: Irving Cummings
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Picture, Best Director – Irving Cummings, Best Actor – Warner Baxter
Won: Best Actor – Warner Baxter
Plot in 25 Words: A very camp bandit is betrayed by the woman he loves. He gets revenge in a deadly manner and loves to rob many more stage coaches.
19 Monday Jan 2015
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Directed: Harry Beaumont
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Harry Beaumont, Best Actress – Bessie Love
Won: Best Film
Plot in 25 Words: Sisters want to become Broadway stars. One sister’s man chooses the other, more attractive sister. The plain sister’s career is more successful, but she’s alone.
14 Tuesday Oct 2014
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Directed: Lewis Milestone
Year: 1927
Nominated: Best Director – Lewis Milestone
Won: Best Director – Lewis Milestone
Plot in 25 Words: The original odd couple break out of a German POW camp and go from one disaster to another ending with a stolen love in Arabia.
05 Sunday Oct 2014
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Directed: King Vidor
Year: 1928
Nominated: Best Director – King Vidor
Plot in 25 Words: A boy is brought up believing he is destined to be ‘somebody’. Finding out he isn’t is quite a shock. Death, suicide and tears galore.
16 Tuesday Sep 2014
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Directed: Frank Borzage
Year: 1927
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Borzage, Best Actress – Janet Gaynor
Won: Best Director – Frank Borzage, Best Actress – Janet Gaynor
Plot in 25 Words: A man pretends a prostitute is his wife to prevent her arrest. Lies turn to love. Sadly war intervenes. Man returns alive but blind.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
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Directed: Ted Wilde
Year: 1928
Nominated: Best Director – Ted Wilde
Plot in 25 Words: A happy-go-lucky guy endures a series of unsuitable jobs with hilarious consequences before saving his girl’s family business driving a streetcar around New York.
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